Peter Thiel has characterized TikTok as an AI weapon directed by China at the United States, and this was stated in a recent speech, but most Silicon Valley executives at a summit may understand it as a business competitor but are uncomfortable framing it as a weapon because that falls into the political correctness trap.
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Peter ThielEvidence Quote
“it's understood on that level um and then um and then you know are you I I don't know it's always it's not quite political correctness but um you know are you are you even able to talk about it as as this weapon that's um you know that's deranging us that's that's quite a bit harder... that kind of critique is probably uh probably one one that could make of of tick tock that it's uh it is somehow um you know it's it it uh it's it surfaces content to people that uh polarizes and deranges them and uh in that sense it's an AI weapon that's being targeted at our society”
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